Joining us now is Newt Gingrich,
former Speaker of the House and Fox News contributor.
Newt. Trump isn't pro Putin.
Isn't it? All that is pro Putin strategy,
isn't it all a little tired at this point is
are the American people buying any of this?
You
know, let me say, first of all,
I thought your interview last night was terrific and that
you did a great job
of drawing out of Trump a number of observations and
a tone
which was as good as I've,
I think I've ever seen him.
So I really commend you for last night's town hall
meeting.
But but let's, let's be honest about where we are
because it's,
I think, very frightening. You have a Biden administration failing
in the Middle East.
You have a Biden administration which collapsed in Afghanistan.
You have a Biden administration which in two years has
not come up with a strategy for winning in Ukraine.
And the world's getting dramatically more dangerous.
And in the meantime, you have a Secretary of State
who thinks one of his most important jobs is to
send out a letter reminding all of the State Department
employees to worry about their gender and to put their
appropriate gender name with their emails.
I mean this. This is an absurdity.
They have to attack and lie about Trump because the
truth will destroy them.
The truth is that they're undermining Israel at this very
moment.
The truth is that they failed totally to intimidate the
Houthis who who hit three ships in the last couple
days.
They failed totally to intimidate the Iranians who continue to
expand their terrorist operations across the Middle East.
They have absolutely failed to figure out a strategy to
stop Putin.
And let me say I warned as early as
2014 during the Crimean fiasco when Obama collapsed totally,
that sanctions don't work against Putin.
Putin is a as as
former Secretary of Defense said Bob Gates said he is
a stone cold killer.
He's a K GB trained operative
and you have to deal with him at that level
of toughness.
And the idea of Joe Biden
trying to deal with Putin is silly.
Donald Trump was right last night when he told you
he's the one who sent real weapons,
which Obama remember. Obama wanted to send them
meals ready to eat and
sleeping bags and non lethal things.
Trump actually sent real weapons to Ukraine.
Trump actually cut off the Russian pipeline.
Trump was much tougher. And then Biden comes along and
goes back to appeasement and the appeasement fails and I
am confident that Putin has total contempt for Biden.
Now, one of the things that I I thought about
last night when President Trump was answering these questions was
it's easy to come out and say,
you know, Putin's a war criminal.
Putin's evil. That's easy, right?
But I think, I think what he's thinking is
I may have to broker or help broker,
encourage a negotiated settlement between that guy
and Zelensky if I'm president.
And so I think he's thinking ahead.
He's not a politician, so he's not going to just
come out and blurt out contrary to what they think,
you know, Oh, he's a killer.
He's a Yeah, OK, that that doesn't get you anywhere.
I think he's thinking February of
2025. What is he going to be dealing with,
with Putin? Do you agree with that?
Well, well, look, I mean,
he's been very clear about this that he believes that
he can negotiate from position of absolute strength
and can convince both Ukraine
and Russia, meaning Putin, that they need to get to
a truce.
Here's the problem for the Ukrainians.
They're not going to beat Russia.
They don't. They we can provide them lots more weapons.
They can lose a lot more people.
But if this goes on for two or three or
four more years,
it's really a tragedy. And I think what Trump's trying
to think through is how do you end this without
strengthening Putin and how do you end this so Ukraine
survives as an independent country.
That is a long way from the rhetoric of Joe
Biden.
And new just before the show we learned that the
Biden administration is considering,
I guess more seriously now an executive action
on the border. A source telling Fox businesses Ed Lawrence
that it would restrict the ability of migrants crossing the
US border illegally to get asylum.
One second Newt. I brought this up with Trump too
last night.
Wait, they said they had no executive authority.
This is the most this is wild.
They are really failing from Russia collusion to now their
Trump on the border.
OK,
let me just say bluntly,
it's all a lie.
This is an administration dedicated
to keeping the border open,
dedicated to allowing thousands of Chinese males of military age
to cross the border,
dedicated to allowing a Venezuelan gang that's very violent,
which we saw beating up New York policemen.
I don't know why they're so passionate about keeping the
border open.
They could have agreed to a border deal with the
Congress,
and they could have gotten aid to Israel and to
Ukraine and a package and the border To them,
keeping it open and keeping illegal immigrants flowing into the
US was more important than helping Ukraine and Israel.
Newt, always great to see you.
Thanks so much.